Nation has made a good start this year with consumption and services serving as the main engines for growth
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the latter's invitation, calling on the two sides to continue focusing on cooperation and properly manage their differences.
China on Monday slammed a recent European Parliament resolution refusing to grant China market economy status, saying the move was not constructive.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for "unswerving efforts" to advance supply-side structural reform, commanding local authorities and various departments to come up with policies to support the campaign.
Beijing municipality has increased the allowance for soldiers who join the People's Liberation Army for the third consecutive year, with higher amounts for better-educated recruits.
Defense Ministry Spokesman Yang Yujun on Saturday expressed "strong dissatisfaction" and "firm opposition" to a Pentagon report that he said has misrepresented China's military development.
For a long period after World War II, no country had challenged China's sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and related rights in the South China Sea.
China's top health authority released a new dietary guideline on Friday, stressing the need for a balanced diet amid rising health threats such as obesity in recent years.
Prosecutors have ended a lengthy corruption probe of a former State-level official and formally charged him, the top procuratorate said on Friday.
President Xi Jinping said Friday that civil air defense should serve as an "indestructible shield" protecting the Chinese people, calling it a key part of the country's development in the next five years.
The commercial departments of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei all signed an agreement on Friday that will cover 26 projects this year in logistics, transport, finance and consumption products.
Former deputy head of China's national political advisory body Ling Jihua has been charged with taking bribes, illegally obtaining state secrets and abuse of power, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Friday.